In a world that glorifies selflessness, there’s elegance in choosing yourself. Being selfish isn’t neglecting other, it’s nurturing your soul, protecting your peace, and honoring your worth. It’s about saying no gracefully and prioritizing your dreams unapologetically. These selfish quotes celebrate the power and sophistication of putting yourself first.
Being Selfish Quotes
Selfishness is the root of all evil.
John F. Kennedy
If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.
Will Smith
I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
Russell Brand
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
Herbie Mann
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
Michael Jordan
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.
Pat Riley
The number one thing on any team that will keep your players from being selfish is respect for the other players.
Nick Saban
It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.
Jules Renard
I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.
Jessica Capshaw
To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
Ouida
When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
Criss Jami
Quotes For People Who Are Selfish
The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
Chadwick Boseman
Someone who smiles too much with you can sometimes frown too much with you at your back.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.
Don Miguel Ruiz
Oh, Sorry! I forgot. I only exist whenever you need something.
Unknown
You can’t expect to have a deep relationship with a shallow person
Doe Zantamata
When someone shows you who they really are, believe them.
Maya Angelou
The selfish man is a kind of prisoner to himself. He cannot love others; he is a slave to his likes and dislikes.
Swami Vivekananda
Selfishness is the only real enemy that a man, as I see it, has in life.
Napoleon Hill
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Oscar Wilde
Selfishness may result in one’s sense of superiority, but life as such will surely deny them.
Eraldo Banovac
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.
Stephen Kendrick
A selfish man doesn’t care if his best friend drowns beside him.
Joe Cervantes
There’s sometimes a fine line between making time for yourself and becoming selfish with your time. So be a bit careful about that.
Eloise Brown
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”
Khalil Gibran
Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
Harry S. Truman
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
Booker T. Washington
Relationship Selfish Quotes
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give, and nobody will care for you.
Karl Lagerfeld
Relationships based on selfish reasons will not give you love, fulfillment, or inner happiness.
Hina Hashmi
Cheating is the most selfish thing a person can do in a relationship If you’re not happy with the person you’re with, then end it It’s that simple.
Jerry Springer
Selfishness is the biggest curse of the human race.
Happy Lives 360
People don’t care about you when you’re alone, they just care about you when they’re alone.
Bob Marley
Marriage takes your whole heart selfish people can’t pull it off.
Helen Hunt
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour’s.
Richard Whately
Selfish people tend to only be good to themselves then are surprised when they are alone.
Steve Maraboli
There’s a higher form of happiness in commitment I’m counting on it.
Claire Forlani
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars, and the selfish hide in high places.
Bryant H McGill
A selfish family is a broken family.
Anonymous
Relationships don’t last because of the good times, they last because the hard times were handled with love and care.
Anurag Prakash Ray
The wrong person will never give you what you want, but they’ll make sure they get what they want from you.
Sonya Parker
The only person who is truly holding you back is you No more excuses it’s time to change It’s time to live life at a new level.
Tony Robbins
Selfishness keeps man blind through life.
Happy Lives 360
Sometimes people can be extraordinarily selfish, but if you move them towards things that they care about, they also can be kind and giving.
Peter Singer
Selfish Family Quotes
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are also not capable of loving themselves either.
Erich Fromm
An unpredictable parent is a fearsome god in the eyes of a child.
Susan Forward
To all you parents out there, don’t make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them.
Lisa Bedrick
Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody.
Catherine Lacey
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
Anne Lamott
They are not sorry for harming you. So, don’t feel guilty for cutting them off.
John Mark Green
You shouldn’t do that. Not to your child. You should carry your own burdens.
Cassandra Clare
It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
Spike Lee
Some scars don’t hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.
Joyce Rachelle
